Mine: I m building a guitar practice tool, and I can t legally show my own app working. Every screenshot has copyrighted lyrics in it.
Spent three weeks working around it cropping, blurring, avoiding the best feature. Then realised the actual fix was to just write two original songs and own the demo files outright. One afternoon, 3 week problem gone permanently lol.
Every maker I talk to has one of these. The thing that looked like admin turned out to be the constraint shaping everything.
What was yours
When I first started using AI, I treated it like any other online tool. I was cautious about what I shared and assumed everything needed to be anonymized.
Today, my first instinct is often to open ChatGPT or Claude before I even search the web. I use them to brainstorm ideas, review code, rewrite emails, summarize documents, or think through problems. They've become part of my workflow rather than just another website.
Your killer app's biggest competitor is a new browser tab We're seeing a TON of new platforms and systems that offer incredible functionality, I'm not here to dismiss that in any way.. BUT (you could feel that 'but' coming, right?)... Injecting AI into the places that people are already working makes waaay more sense when possible. My main discipline is marketing - I've spent 20 years jumping between tools every other month, it's exhausting but there's always a core group of tools that survive and it tends to be communication tools. Whether it's simple like Slack or WhatsApp, or Project Management like Jira, Monday etc. this is where the teams do their work. I have an oversimplified ask: If you're making a cool tool for a business try and find a way to bring it into their existing workspaces. That way you don't have to deal with as much behavioral change/resistance of logging into a new tab each time (I know, I know.. I'd love to change the world with a killer app too). As useful as your tool is; the accessibility/ease-of-access will always be somewhat of a hurdle and it's something to keep in mind.
Needed to update my account details on a tool I use.
Instead of a clear settings button, I was greeted with floating menus autoplaying videos and popups asking me to upgrade my plan. It took way longer than it should have to find a basic link.
The site looked amazing, but the experience was exhausting.
New week means a new chance to ship that product or feature that's been on your mind. It's easier said than done though. Drop what you're aiming to ship this week, get advice from others and let's check back in on Friday and see your progress
As entrepreneurs, we spend so much time hustling, agonizing, organizing, and pathologizing. The burnout rate for founders is high. When you finally launched your product or service, how did it make you feel?
When we launched our beta (not on PH, but to our beta group), I felt peace. Finally, I could rest my mind on problem-solving based on facts instead of stressing over things that weren t real. I m curious to know how your mental health changed post-launch and what you re doing to keep yourself sane in the meantime.
Not the big obvious stuff. The thing that is quietly building in the background while you are dealing with whatever is loudest today.
For me it used to be a slow-paying client in one business or a staffing gap in another, the kind of thing I would only notice once it already cost something. Not because I did not care, but because I was looking at whichever business was yelling the loudest that morning, and the quiet one does not yell.
